Tidymodels: tidy machine learning in R

Over the past few years, tidymodels has been gradually emerging as the tidyverse's machine learning toolkit. Well, it turns out that R has a consistency problem. Since everything was made by different people and using different principles, everything has a slightly different interface, and trying to keep everything in line can be frustrating. Several years ago, Max Kuhn (formerly at Pfeizer, now at RStudio) developed the caret R package (see my caret tutorial) aimed at creating a uniform interface for the massive variety of machine learning models that exist in R. Caret was great in a lot of ways, but also limited in others. In my own use, I found it to be quite slow whenever I tried to use on problems of any kind of modest size.